Belgium

Belgium has managed without a government for 461 days. Its economy is surviving and it has taken part in the Libya campaign. So do we really need a government? Channel 4 News investigates.

Three people have been killed and 40 injured after a storm ripped through a music festival in the Belgian city of Hasselt. An eyewitness says the freak weather was ‘like the end of the world’

France, Italy, Spain and Belgium impose a ban on short-selling financial stocks in a bid to restore confidence to the markets.

Belgium’s Justice Minister calls on the Catholic Church to punish a former Bishop who appeared on TV to deny he was a paedophile but admit abusing two young nephews.

Insurers cannot charge different premiums to men and women because of their gender, the European Court of Justice rules. An insurance expert tells Channel 4 News it’s a “dark day” for female drivers.

EU finance ministers are looking at plans to help Ireland out of its debt crisis with experts ready for a bail-out – including a potential offer of bilateral aid from the UK, Faisal Islam explains.

Europe heaps pressure on Ireland to accept a financial bail-out, as fears grow that a failure to do so would be catastrophic. Economics Editor Faisal Islam says it could all end in the courts.

The Prime Minister has claimed victory in his bid to limit next year’s EU budget rise to 2.9 per cent, despite previously saying he wanted to cut or freeze the budget. Cathy Newman is in Brussels.

David Cameron wins support from fellow European leaders to restrict a planned increase in the EU’s budget to less than three per cent. Cathy Newman is in Brussels.

Coordinated strikes in major European cities cause travel disruption as workers protest against spending cuts while austerity measures begin to bite across the continent.

A Belgian cleric has admitted the church has not apologised for child sex abuse due to fears of litigation costs. But an expert tells Channel 4 News the size of UK payouts may not justify such fears.

As the Pope prepares to visit Britain, Belgium’s Catholic Church acknowledges widespread abuse. Its head tells Channel 4 News that only the Vatican can remove the priest at the centre of the claims.

65-year-old San Deurinck, a retired shopkeeper, describes to Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Rugman what he had endured as a child at a Catholic boarding school in the 1950s and 1960s.

As the Pope prepares to come to Britain, the Catholic church is engulfed by a new crisis. Jonathan Rugman has details of a distressing inquiry into child abuse by priests in Belgium.